Conquering fears

I have a terrible phobia. I darent say what it is though, people will think I,m really stupid. And I am. Thats just it. I KNOW, it,s irrational, I KNOW that the thing i,m so terrified of cant hurt me, I KNOW all this yet when I see one, my heart pounds, and I panic and I have to get away from it. If someone told me to take 100 pills every day for the rest of my life because that would cure it i,d happily do so.

@giggles wrote:

we had a show that came to my place of work the other day ……it was ace with loads of different types … for the … adults :oops: to hold…..

I have always had a fear …. but held a massive hairy one, and I wasn’t scared at all :shock: . I feel very proud of myself for doing this

but I’m curious to know if anyone beat their ‘s …. good.

Selective editing is great :lol: :lol:

@angel* wrote:

Bat I’m sure your not stupid, fears are irrational but doesn’t make them any less frightening to the person that fears them/it…. I feel for anyone who has a genuine fear of something xxxx
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I have a fear of heights, I tried to combat it a few yrs back one Christmas, I had been askin my hubby to get the decorations down from the loft for days, which he hadn’t, so I thought to myself “ok, they’re just up in the loft, there’s a perfectly safe ladder, you’ll be just fine, you can do it” so up I went, I gingerly collected all the decorations but froze when it was time to come down the ladder, I came out in a sweat and started shaking, and to look down the ladder made me feel physically sick, basically I was stuck there until my Mum helped me down, I felt so stupid and don’t think I’ll ever conquer that fear :roll:

Thanks Angelxx. I still feel a right wally though lol. A few years ago now, the object of my terror apeared in my sons bedroom. I slammed the door and ran into my bedroom shutting the door. I sat there with my leg shaking with fright. I seriously thought about jumping out of the window to get out of the house in case the “thing” was on the landing.(It was only a short drop to the grond lol) In the end I peeked out of the door and and it hadnt, so I ran downstairs and next door to my neighbour, who must have thought I was crazy. I was crying and nearly hysterical. She had to come in and get rid of the ofending “thing” for me. FFS. Bring on the pills lol. :oops: :oops: :oops: Silly Bat.

Since I was a child I’ve had a phobia of birds, it peaked when I was in my teens and I almost got run over as I ran into the road to get away from a pigeon :roll: I’ve had hypnotherapy and when I was 16 I had some sort of regression thing, can’t remember what it was called now, all they did really was identify the cause, but did not cure me. I desperately try not to pass this fear on to my kids, but whenever they ask to feed the ducks, daddy has to take them
Some birds affect me more than other’s but pigeon’s make me feel physically sick, I can’t ever imagine feeding them at Trafalgar Square !